The investigation covers how four decades of wage stagnation and compounding cost increases created the conditions for $18.8 trillion in household debt, what behavioral economics reveals about why conspicuous spending runs deepest where financial security is thinnest, and why stagflation breaks the Federal Reserve’s two mandates simultaneously, leaving ordinary households to absorb the cost of an impossible choice. No solutions here. Just the full picture.
Aware Trade Podcast
#4. Trapped in a Hamster Wheel Economy
#4. Trapped in a Hamster Wheel Economy
The science behind the squeeze: debt cycles, behavioral economics, and why the Fed can't save us.
Aware Trade Podcast
You can sense that something is wrong. You're right. Money, AI, and surveillance infrastructure are being rebuilt together, into a new operating logic I call Coercive Capitalism. Each episode is researched, sourced, and directed by me, drawing on two decades of experience within the payments infrastructure I now investigate. The research is synthesized into audio using AI. This isn't a shortcut; it's a way to cover more ground than one person reading and narrating alone ever could.
You can sense that something is wrong. You're right. Money, AI, and surveillance infrastructure are being rebuilt together, into a new operating logic I call Coercive Capitalism. Each episode is researched, sourced, and directed by me, drawing on two decades of experience within the payments infrastructure I now investigate. The research is synthesized into audio using AI. This isn't a shortcut; it's a way to cover more ground than one person reading and narrating alone ever could.Appears in episode
